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• All of us, to some extent, borrow from others, from the culture around us. Ideas are in the air, and we may appropriate, often without realizing, the phrases and language of the times. We borrow language itself; we did not invent it. We found it, we…

  Oliver Sacks

• We can’t control the happenstances that determine the course of our lives. But we can control how we respond to them, and we can carry on looking for the bright side, no matter how dark the future appears. We can’t make a perfect world. But we…

  Sumit Paul-Choudhury

• The need for intimacy in a human life and in a human social life is as foundational as our daily hunger and our never ending thirst, and needs to be met in just the same practical way, every day, just as necessarily and just as frequently: in touch,…

  David Whyte

• I don’t know what I'm doing yet. It's only a matter of time until I figure it out.

  Anonymous

• We were the masters. The rulers. We’re now (still) the ideators albeit not the main constructors. And soon, we’ll be just spectators, mere observers of a world neither built by us nor understood by us. A world that unfolds before our eyes too…

  Alberto Romero

• Forest Hermitage: A Pilgrim's Rest In the late hours when mist becomes prayer, We found your sanctuary there Where ancient cedars stand as living gates, And vine maples dance, moss-adorned and ornate. The metal roof, green as forest…

  Michael Hamilton with help from Claude.ai 3.5 Sonnet

• Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice. Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure,…

  C.S. Lewis

• Science, proceeding on skepticism, not certainty, is arguably the most successful human activity of all time.

  Dennis Overbye

• How does it feel to be on your own, to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?

  Bob Dylan

• The translation of luminous experience and human connection to "divine" causality is unworthy of life's real beauty, power and meaning. Why make up superstitious drivel to explain beautiful consciousness when beauty and humanity are so spectacular…

  Anonymous NYT commentator

• The deep union of ourselves with our inventions is not new. If a cyborg means a being that is part biological and part technological then we humans began as cyborgs, and still are. Our ancestors first chipped stone scrapers 2.5 million years ago to…

  Kevin Kelly

• Nowhere can man find retirement more peaceful and untroubled than in his own soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

• Intelligence is whatever machines haven’t done yet.

  Larry Tessler

• “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

  J.R.R. Tolkien

• And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

  Buckaroo Bonzai

• Good house, to me you were but a device To keep the rain outside, a shelter where I could change clothes unseen, dodge winter's ice, And sometimes hang the hat I seldom wear And also harbor bugs and molds and mice Pyromaniac wiring and…

  Zeke Hoskin

• The brain may be a physical system made of ordinary matter, but that matter is organized in such a way as to give rise to a sentient organism with a capacity to feel pleasure and pain. And that in turn sets the stage for the emergence of morality.

  Steven Pinker

• Far from being selfish, angry low-lifes, all the atheists and humanists I know (allowing for minor individual differences in family situation and personality) hold down 9-to-5 jobs, have stable marriages, are devoted and involved parents, spoil…

  Rebecca Baumgartner

• For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we…

  Barrack Obama

• Keep showing up. Join something. Find your people. Bring your superpowers. Be a problem solver. Choose your battles. Nourish joy. Love nature.

  Ayana Elizabeth Johnson